Support Your Home Industries!

[panamag8or]

Bartender Note (with apologies to panamag8tor):

Remembering that we are very much an international club, let's use this spot to provide information and links to products made around the world that are safe, well-made and produced under humane conditions. Americans hardly have a hammer lock on what can be defined as "quality goods." Every member has the right to be proud of the goods produced in their native country. Here's a place we can all give a ra-ra boost to our home shores.

I have combined previous similar threads, and culled out the political commentary, which will also be removed from this thread from here on out. We can provide information on items that do not contain harmful components, but let's not turn it into an anti-Pacific Rim rant.

Thanks.



I found
this site:

Lots of American-made products.

Then again, if we all just buy vintage, chances are it will be made in the USA.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

http://roytoy.com/main.html

Made in Maine.

 

[Feraud]

It might help those who want to support this idea if we can list the companies that are American owned and based.

Any electronic, automobile, clothing business names would be helpful.

 

[Foofoogal]

http://www.madeinusa.org/
http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/
http://www.madeinusa.com/
http://www.usstuff.com/

I can see a whole cottage industry.

Like Scotrace though I am willing to buy from anywhere if the product is quality and will not make my grandchildren or me glow in the dark. :eusa_doh:
I will not even walk into a dollar store anymore till they can prove this stuff is safe.

 

[Foofoogal]

Toys Made in America

In light of the recall of nearly 1 million Chinese-produced toys tainted with lead paint, below is a list of toys made in the USA:

• Battleship
• Bicycle Playing Cards
• Boggle Jr.
• Candyland
• Chutes and Ladders
• Clue
• Connect Four
• Crayola Crayons *
• Life
• Louisville Slugger
• Monopoly
• Mouse Trap
• Operation
• Parcheesi
• Play-Doh *
• Pop-O-Matic Trouble
• Radio Flyer Discovery Wagon
• Scrabble
• Sorry
• Stratego
• Tri-ominos
• Trivial Pursuit
• Yahtzee
• Melissa and Doug U.S.A. Floor Puzzle (Most puzzles are made in the USA!)

* Note: Not all packages of Crayola Crayons and Play-Doh are made in the USA -- please check the label.

Also, anything you buy from the American Plastic Toy Company is made in America.

You can also find American-made toys on these Web sites:


Archive Interview Archive • www.ShopForAmerica.com
• www.ZebulonUSA.com
• www.usmadetoys.com
• www.unclegoosetoys.com
• www.holgatetoy.com
• www.maplelandmark.com

http://www.toysmadeinamerica.com/

Finally, for more information on how to buy American, visit: www.howtobuyamerican.com

 

[Foofoogal]

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/category/toy.html

Current toy recalls.
Curious George today! :eusa_doh:

 

[scotrace]

Quality Products From Around The Globe

Bump. Note changes. See Post #1.

 

[carter]

Works for me...

Bump. Note changes. See Post #1.

Thanks Bartenders. A place for safe quality products is particularly appropriate at this time of year. Does anyone know which of these products and any others not mentioned were being made before WWII?

 

[scotrace]

Thanks, Carter.

One more title change. Sorry everyone. Trying to find the best way to make it all work!

 

[scotrace]

Now, on-topic

I've found that the Victor mouse traps I bought the other day (they keep the dogs off the furniture) are marked Made in USA.

Some of the very best -made men's shoes in the world are made right here, by Alden and Allen-Edmonds.

 

[Feraud]

I think G&B a2 jackets are made in the U.S.A.
It is a quality product.

 

[carter]

I've found that the Victor mouse traps I bought the other day (they keep the dogs off the furniture) are marked Made in USA.

Some of the very best -made men's shoes in the world are made right here, by http://www.aldenshoe.com/ and Allen-Edmonds.

Both fine shoemakers!

fftopic:
What happens when an unwary human sits on the furniture?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Snow plows, made in Rockland Maine. The only thing we have left that isn't shiny junk for tourists.

http://www.fisherplows.com

 

[carter]

Snow plows, made in Rockland Maine. The only thing we have left that isn't shiny junk for tourists.

http://www.fisherplows.com

If we only had snow...

 

[scotrace]

What happens when an unwary human sits on the furniture?

Why, they get their bumpus snapped, of course.

We have few guests these days...